Kura conveyor belt sushi bar opens at Freehold Raceway Mall
Sushi fans, this is for you. Kura Ripped Sushi Bar has opened its first shore restaurant offering a fun and extensive menu.
President Trump may not like eating sushi, but he’s comfortable investing in it.
Kura Sushi will be found among President Trump’s vast financial deals announced earlier this week, along with investments in Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Metaplatform, and Oracle. Kura Sushi is a restaurant chain with a revolving bar where customers can pick up what they want from the food that flows by.
President Trump invested between $1 million and $5 million in Kura Sushi, an Irvine, Calif.-based company with 88 stores across the U.S. and more than 650 restaurants around the world. Trump has also invested between $1 million and $5 million in other companies, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia.
Some Democrats and ethics advocates said Trump’s trade activities could constitute a conflict of interest. But the Trump Organization said his accounts were being managed by a third-party financial institution without input from Trump or his family.
Trump’s total trade in the first three months of this year ranged from $220 million to about $750 million, according to stock sales and sales reported to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics earlier this month.
Trump’s deals also included large sales of investments worth between $5 million and $25 million in Amazon, Microsoft and Meta.
President Trump hates raw fish, prefers beef
President Trump’s aversion to raw fish was chronicled in his 1993 book “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” in which author Harry Hart III wrote that Trump said during a 1990 trip to Japan that he would “not eat any (expletive) raw fish,” Yahoo reported.
During a visit to Japan in 2017, President Trump and then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly ate hamburgers for lunch and Wagyu beef, scallops, and lobster for dinner. President Trump may prefer a steak with lots of ketchup, but at a 2016 rally he criticized expensive state dinners, saying, “We should be eating hamburgers at the conference table,” CNBC reported.
Kura Sushi wasn’t the only restaurant Trump invested in during this period. He also reported purchases of Chipotle ($500,000 to $1 million), Domino’s Pizza ($250,000 to $500,000), and Starbucks ($50,000 to $100,000).
Contributor: Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, Reuters.
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